Gaelic Event at May Festival –Aberdeen on Friday 25th May 2018, 18:00-19:00Linklater Rooms, University of Aberdeen.
Celebrate The Gaelic Books Council’s 50th anniversary with an exhibition and readings by award
-winning authors Alison Lang and Sandy NicDho mhnaill Jones, in conversation with Michelle
MacLeod.Poet, singer and harpist Sandy NicDho mhnaill Jones is a versatile and intriguing new voice in Gaelic poetry, winning Scotland’s Wigtown Poetry Prize in 2013 and Ireland’s Col. Eoghain Uì Ne ill Prize in 2014. Sandy has a home in South Uist and strong affinities with the Hebrides. Her first poetry collection, Crotal Ruadh / Red Lichen was published by Acair in 2016 and was
shortlisted for the 2016 Donald Meek Award.
Alison Lang is a celebrated novelist and short story writer in Gaelic and English, who also writes drama for television, radio and stage. Her books have been shortlisted for Donald Meek and
Saltire Society awards. Her latest novel, Am Balach Beag a dh'E isteadh aig Dorsan (The Little Boy who Listened at Doors), was launched by Luath Press in March 2018.
Free tickets are available from : www.abdn.ac.uk/mayfestival
Celebrate The Gaelic Books Council’s 50th anniversary with an exhibition and readings by award
-winning authors Alison Lang and Sandy NicDho mhnaill Jones, in conversation with Michelle
MacLeod.Poet, singer and harpist Sandy NicDho mhnaill Jones is a versatile and intriguing new voice in Gaelic poetry, winning Scotland’s Wigtown Poetry Prize in 2013 and Ireland’s Col. Eoghain Uì Ne ill Prize in 2014. Sandy has a home in South Uist and strong affinities with the Hebrides. Her first poetry collection, Crotal Ruadh / Red Lichen was published by Acair in 2016 and was
shortlisted for the 2016 Donald Meek Award.
Alison Lang is a celebrated novelist and short story writer in Gaelic and English, who also writes drama for television, radio and stage. Her books have been shortlisted for Donald Meek and
Saltire Society awards. Her latest novel, Am Balach Beag a dh'E isteadh aig Dorsan (The Little Boy who Listened at Doors), was launched by Luath Press in March 2018.
Free tickets are available from : www.abdn.ac.uk/mayfestival
